As we were making our way through a subway tunnel in Beijing, Mama Lai spotted a young Chinese man who wore his pants very low. Mama Lai turned to me and pointed at him:
"Is that what they call a 'low-ride'?"
Chuckling, I nodded yes.
"Do you know what the history of a low-ride pants is?"
Thinking she was asking this question in earnest, I volunteered to help her look it up when we got back home if she was really that curious.
"Oh!! You don't know??? Well, I know. Let me tell you."
Mama Lai gleefully related to me her knowledge of "low-rider" pants, which she had garnered from reading an online article
"written by a black man" (so of course on such topics, this is an important indicator of reliability).
"...in prison when you wear your pants low it means you're the submissive one."
I was practically choking with laughter and I must've given Mama Lai a look because she announced:
"and yes I know what submissive means in prison!"
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